Name
Rita Karin
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-10-24
Deathday
1993-09-10 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Biography
She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Known For
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Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he ...
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Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Su...
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Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a po...
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Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and...
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A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals....
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A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman a...
- 1981 Starstruck as Mrs. Reuben
- 1993 The Pickle as Grandmother
- 1982 Sophie's Choice as Yetta
- 1991 He Said, She Said as Mrs. Spepk
- 1991 Age Isn't Everything as Flo
- 1989 Enemies, a Love Story as Mrs. Schreier
- 1971 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight as Mrs. Goldfarb
- 1974 Nicky's World as Mrs. Mylonas
- 1978 The Big Fix as Aunt Sonya
- 1972 Up the Sandbox as Mrs. Grossbard (uncredited)
- 1985 Kojak: The Belarus File
- 1978 Matilda as Spectator
- 1984 Kate & Allie ( 1 episode )
- 1972 ABC Afterschool Special ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Reuben
- 1989 Chicken Soup ( 12 episodes ) as Bea Fisher
